《One-eyed Jack and the Suicide King 》作者：- Elizabeth Bear 【EPUB】

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Authors Note: This is both a standalone short story and--in a slightly different form--thefirst chapter of a novel by the same title which will eventually be published as PrometheanAge 5 God willin and the crick dont rise. One-eyed Jack and the Suicide King Elizabeth Bear Its not a straight drop. Rather the Dam is a long sweeping plunge of winter-white concrete: adress for a three-time Las Vegas bride without quite the gall to show up in French lace andseed pearls. If you face Arizona Lake Mead spreads out blue and alien on your left handinside a bathtub ring of Colorado River limestone and perchlorate drainage from wartimetitanium plants. Unlikely as canals on Mars all that azure water rimmed in massive red andblack rock the likeness to an alien landscape is redoubled by the Dams louvered concreteintake towers. At your back is the Hoover Dam visitors center and on the lake side sit twoart-deco angels swordcut wings thirty feet tall piercing the desert sky their big toes shinyfrom touches for luck. That angled drop is on your right. ?? main droite. Downriver. To California . The same wayall those phalanxes and legions of electrical towers march. Its not a straight drop. Hoover s much wider at the base than at the apex where a two-laneroad runs flanked by sidewalks. The cement in the Dams tunnel-riddled bowels wont be curedfor another hundred years and they say itll take a glacier or a nuke to shift the structure.Its face is ragged with protruding rebar and unsmoothed edges for all it looks fondant-frostedand insubstantial in the asphyxiating light of a Mojave summer. Stewart had gotten hung up on